Lea Müller-Funk
Assistant professor @demigkrems.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
- I am delighted to share a new version of our SYREALITY Handbook chapter about the quantitative data collection, which now includes a new sub-chapter about data cleaning. It’s open access. zenodo.org/records/1706...
- 📣 Two more weeks to apply for this qualitative postdoc position within my projects RESTATE and SYREALITY! 📣
- 📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
- 📣 IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS Zooming In: Micro-(im)mobilities and local adaptation strategies for communities at risk Panel organisors: Jan Niklas Janoth & myself Deadline: 20 September 2025
- We ask: ❓ In which ways can micro-(im)mobilities serve as adaptation strategy for people at risk? ❓ How does social inequality shape processes of micro-(im)mobilities? ❓ How are life aspirations related to micro-(im)mobilities?
- ❓ How do micro-(im)mobilities contribute to community engagement and local action? Please spread the word and send us your contributions!
- 📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
- The position involves research on refugees’ political agency and changing perceptions of the state. The PhD researcher will focus on the Syrian case study with qualitative fieldwork in Syria (online), Istanbul, and Berlin. There is room to shape the PhD project in line with your own interests.
- The PhD position is based at the Department for Migration and Globalisation, Danube University Krems. 🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 30 September 2025): www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
- 💬 I’m hosting an informal online info session about the position and the PhD programme at our department on 8 September 2025, from 10:30 to 12:30 CET, on Zoom. 🔗 Register here if you're interested: donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- 📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.
- The position involves research on refugees’ (im)mobilities, political agency and changing perceptions of the state. The postdoc will co-lead the qualitative data collection of the ERC project and contribute to the analysis of both projects. The postdoc is based at the @demigkrems.bsky.social.
- 🔗 More details and application link (deadline: 16 September 2025): www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
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- I recently joined the iniative of the ÖAD to become a science ambassador at Austrian schools. In my opinion, it's a very important initative to strengthen trust in science in society and exchange about research early on. Please share and consider joining!
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- It was a pleasure to host this inspiring group of scholars for two days in Krems this week & think together about ongoing research on #mobility #control as #state-(re)making in #conflict settings for our upcoming SI with Journal of Refugee Studies.
- Honoured to have joined the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Science and slightly relieved that I am still considered young with my 39 years 👵 Looking forward to promote non-precarious work conditions, equality, diversity and interdisciplinarity in Austrian academia.
- Inspiring IMISCOE Spring Conference coming to an end! Sad that I could not participate in person due to a broken leg but glad for its hybrid format to get an overview of and engage with exciting ongoing research & reflect on knowledge production, legal status transitions and blurred boundaries.
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- If you haven't had the chance to do so yet, check out Lori Wilkinson’s entry on our blog: “What Research Ethics Boards know and don’t know about research with refugee populations” www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...
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